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  • noun Alternative spelling of depolarization.

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  • noun a loss of polarity or polarization

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Examples

  • Talks on such subjects should be very infrequent, but I believe that, if "depolarisation" is to be achieved, they must be repeated every now and then during later childhood and in adolescence.

    The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

  • To achieve "depolarisation," there is nothing more efficacious than the frankness and explicitness of scientific statement, however elementary.

    The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

  • Additionally, they said the breakdown of aspartame causes nerves to fire excessively, which can indirectly lead to a high rate of neuron depolarisation.

    Review raises questions over aspartame and brain health 2008

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, and submit such words to a process of depolarisation, which brings out their real meaning.

    The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science 1881

  • The mechanism of action of the drug is depolarisation of the cell membrane and destruction of the cell wall.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yanmin Hu et al. 2010

  • The mechanism of action of the drug is depolarisation of the cell membrane and destruction of the cell wall.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yanmin Hu et al. 2010

  • For example, the intracellular and extracellular concentrations of Na+ and K+ ions is significant in neurones, as they play a vital role in the establishment of resting potentials, and for depolarisation and subsequent repolarisation.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • The wave of depolarisation is directed inferiorly and towards the left, and thus the P wave tends to be upright in leads I and II and inverted in lead aVR.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Bifid P waves result from slight asynchrony between right and left atrial depolarisation.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • For example, the intracellular and extracellular concentrations of Na+ and K+ ions is significant in neurones, as they play a vital role in the establishment of resting potentials, and for depolarisation and subsequent repolarisation.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

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